WordPress: include presentation

I was wondering if wordpress has some feature to show presentations in ppt, odp or pdf formats inside de blog. I haven’t found anything and worse, I didn’t succeed to upload an odp file despite of succefully upload a ppt file. I received the message “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.” After a while I reach the faq, but I still don’t know how to change that nonsense “security guidlines” policy. Anyone got a tip?

WordPress: include video

What about include some youtube video? Let see the results: that’s our mitosis video grep from youtube. Look like nice to me.

Did you remember the diference between mitosis and meiosis?

WordPress: include image

Well, I never tryied before. So, let use some picure here.

• First a uploaded one.

• Than now just a link.

That’s all folks. Nothing new. And remember, open source is cool.

Plotting with MatPlotLib, PyGTK and Glade

The matplotlib is a plotting library for python which uses a syntax based on matlab. It is quite powerful: there are a large sets of 2D and 3D graphs available, it suports most of windowing toolkits (GTK, Tkinter, Qt, and wxWindows) for embedded GUI applications as well as interfacing with the python shell (see IPython).

See other python plotting solutions and compare.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting

Bellow we describe an example of embedded PyGTK with Glade application that uses matplotlib. It just draws a barchart graph. The code is based on the matplotlib examples, serpia pygtk tutorial and matplotlib cookbook.

SQLite examples with Bash, Perl and Python

If you are looking for a lightweight database solution take a look on SQLite. I made some very simple examples with Perl, Python and Bash interfacing with sqlite. Just when I have finished I find out this article bellow that have also some examples in Perl and Python to start playing. Take a look!

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6650/

Well, all those samples do the same thing. First it creates a table “n” with columns “f” and “l”. Then it insert (“john”, “smith”) as an entry. And finally dumps everything it finds in table “n”.

Threading with PyGTK and Glade

I find out just one pratical sample about how to use pygtk with thread at the http://pygtk.org/ faq. Although I think that coolest thing of pygtk is use with glade. With no samples available I’d tried to do by myself. I am glad because at the end it was pretty much the same stuff as the sample that wasn’t using glade! Good job done, folks!

What about a BLOG?

First entry. A really expect to have time to get this thing useful. I’ve been reading blogs for a while and I do believe that it can be interesting way to share ideas as rss readers as well as tools like planet becomes popular.